TWD/PL MASTER
Eve acting on female weakness ' a foe so proud
'a foe so proud will first the weaker seek
vittoria's view of justice as rape
'a rape! you have ravished justice, forced her to do your pleasure!
'bone of my bone
'bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe'
Vittoria, masculine virtue
'entangled in a cursed accusation, must personate masculine virtue.
Lodovico 'fortune
'fortune's a right w*ore
Marcello about Flamineo's crucific
'he took the crucifix between his hands, and broke a limb off'
Monticelso 'black lust
'her black lust shall make her infamous to all our neighbouring kingdoms
Brachiano, law & scandal
'i'll seat you above law and scandal'
Eve as the 'queen
'queen of the universe
Eve glowing (like vittoria)
'so thick the roses bushing round about her glowed'
Monticelso, vittoria as fruit
'what goodly fruit she seems'
words as rape (PL)
(eve) impregned with reason, to her seeming, and with truth
Flamineo & Satan using different disguises for deception 'considered every creature' 'i will feign a mad humour'
Considered every creature, which of all most opportune might serve his wiles I will feign a mad humour for the disgrace of my sister, and that will keep off idle questions
Eve as the only one for adam
Eve, associate sole
Satan enters the not yet 'nocent' snake corrupting innocence, but also a hint at an inbuilt animalistic brutality? 'Fearless...
Fearless unfeared he slept: in at his mouth the devil entered, and his brutal sense [...] soon inspired with act intelligential
Satan destruction
For only in destroying I find ease
Brachianno after poisoning linked to A&E after eating fruit He's fallen... New wine intoxicated...
He's fallen into a strange distraction New wine intoxicated both they swim in mirth
Imagery regarding implications of leaving straight and narrow christian path WILES// LINK TO 'MIGHT SERVE HIS WILES??? SNAKE ALREADY EVIL?/? Narrator: His head the midst... Flamineo: The subtle
His head the mist, well stored with subtle wiles The subtle foldings of a winter's snake
Flamineo, compassion
I have a strange thing in me... compassion
Satan 'I who erst contended...
I who erst contended with gods to sit the highest am now constrained into a beast
satan's descent
O foul descent!
Isabella, "O that i were
O that i were a man or that i had power
Adam inextricably linked to Eve E: "one heart.... Vittoria also linked to B after adultery & marriage, she becomes lost after his death 'I am...
One heart, one soul in both [...] linked in love so dear' I am now lost
Eve describing God as 'our...
Our great forbidder
Flamineo, like Satan willing to blame anyone but themselves for position Pray what means have you
Pray what means have you to keep me from the galleys [...] my father died ere the money was spent
Satan, revenge at first (essentially sums up the basis of the white devil)
Revenge at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils
Satan entranced by eve 'The evil one.. is she more spiritually powerful than him? like vittoria is more theoretically powerful than monticelso in the court scene?
The evil one abstracted stood from his own evil and for the time remained stupidly good but the hot hell that always in him burns
Eve's femininity thus her reply with
Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed
Flamineo 'burs' (sticky plants)
Women are like to burs; where their affection throws them, there they'll stick
Brachiano and Satan offering women status B:You shall at once... S: Empress...
You shall at once to me be dukedom, health, wife, children, friends and all Empress of this fair world
Satan and Flamineo (death bed) 'mist'// flamineo refuses to consider heaven// he's still in the mist of the blind spell of evil that he's always been in (cordelia recalls him breaking off the arms of a crucifix)
and with it rose Satan involved in rising mist O I am in a mist
'anger and just rebuke.... AMBIGUITY???
anger, and just rebuke, and judgement given, that brought into this world a world of woe
1st words of TWD
banished?
Satan, bent
bent on man's destruction, maugre what might hap of heaver on himself, fearless returned.
Conjurer maxim 'both flowers
both flowers and weeds spring when the sun is warm, and great men do great good, or else great harm
Vittoria 'condemn you me
condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
Brachiano on Isabella's death
excellent, then she's dead
flower imagery about eve (w/out adam)
fairest unsupported flower
Lodovico's murders as
flea-bitings
'from his slack hand'
from his slack hand the garland wreathed for eve down dropped
satan's passion 'from inward grief
from inward grief his bursting passion into plaints thus pured
Conjurer, 'great men'
great men do great good or else great harm
Flamineo on Brachiano not repaying debts
he has given me nothing
lascivious (PL)
he on eve began to to cast lascivious eyes ... in lust they burn
Adam 'he scrupled...
he scrupled not to eat against his better knowledge, not deceived but fondly overcome with female charm
adam seizing hand vs soft grip before
her hand he seized and to a shady bank he led her soft her hand she withdrew
Monticelso, vittoria as the devil
if the devil did ever take good shape, behold this picture
Eve, 'keep the odds of knowledge
keep the odds of knowledge in our power, and render me more equal... for who inferior is free?
flamineo; knaves do grow
knaves do grow great by being great men's apes
Giovanni, justice, 'let guilty men
let guilty men remember their black deeds do lean on crutches made of slender reeds
Isabella forgiving B 'may
may your sins find mercy
lascivious (TWD)
monticelso 'when you awake from this lascivious dream
Satan's disguise linked to Francisco's disguise as the Mulinassar 'new..
new parts put on
Eve on reason
our reason is our law
adam as the 'patriarch
patriarch of mankind
Adam on reason
reason is free and reason he made right
imagery with torches, come in v/ vittoria and leave with her, leaving F&B to plot link to the way in which satan 'rode
rode with darkness
'she plucked; she ate...
she plucked, she ate: earth felt the wound
Eve lying to Adam upon return 'thee
thee i have missed
milton// last few lines 'thus they in mutual
thus they in mutual accusation spent the fruitless hours
milton on their guilt vs before
to hide their guilt and dreaded shame; o how unlike to that first naked glory
Flamineo not trusting women
trust a woman? never, never
Monticelso: Untie your folded thoughts.. Narrator: mazy a bride's hair at the time was let loose behind// a woman is pure within marriage
untie your folded thoughts and let them dangle loose as a bride's hair Mazy folds
sovereign reason
usurping over sovereign reason
Adam, flesh
we are one, one flesh, to lose thee were to lose myself
Monticelso, women, devil, paradise
were there a second paradise to lose, this devil would betray it.
Cordelia's moral stance on poverty
what? because we are poor, shall we be vicious?
Adam 'husband [...]
who guards her, or with her the worst endures
monticelso; women are like curst
women are like curst dogs; civility keeps them tied all day time, but they are let loose at midnight; then they do most good or most mischief
